Visit of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) on October 4, 1955

Dr. Jean Filiozat, 1st Director of the IFP

Inauguration of NACLIN 2014 in the presence of former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, presenting at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on March 23, 2015, the Presidential Award of Certificate of Honour to Pandit S. Sambandan Sivacharya

The French Institute of Pondicherry, an advanced centre in the network of French research in Asia, is one of the pillars of French scientific cooperation with India and, beyond, with South and South-East Asia.

To enable it to play its full role in what has become global cooperation and competition, in-depth reforms have been initiated. The perspective is twofold: on the one hand, to endow the institution with clear objectives and, on the other hand, to allow it to play the role of “designer” of cooperative research activities, of training and expertise.

The reports can be downloaded in PDF formats. The documents presented are parts of annual activity reports of French Research Institutes in India.